Ten House members still file their stock-trade reports on paper, Clerk records show

By Rosalind Kerrow

WASHINGTON — Ten members of the House have filed every one of their 2026 stock-trade reports on paper rather than through the chamber’s electronic system, according to the Clerk of the House’s disclosure index. Their reports reach the public as scanned images rather than searchable text.

Of the 437 periodic transaction reports, or PTRs, listed in the Clerk’s 2026 index through Oct. 22, 53 were paper filings. All 53 came from those ten members, nine Republicans and one Democrat. None of the ten filed a PTR electronically this year. The other 384 reports came from 100 filers who used the online system.

Filing on paper is allowed. The House Ethics Committee’s 2026 instruction guide describes two routes: the electronic system at fd.house.gov, or a paper form delivered to the Clerk’s Legislative Resource Center. Members who file on paper must submit “one original (with an original signature) and two photocopies,” and the guide warns that “illegible submissions may require amendment.” The deadline is the same either way: within 30 days of learning of a trade and no later than 45 days after it, under the STOCK Act.

Who files on paper

The ten members and their 2026 paper PTRs, as listed in the Clerk’s index:

• Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.): 14, most recently three reports received Oct. 1
• Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.): 9, most recently Oct. 7
• Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.): 8, most recently Sept. 23
• Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas): 7, most recently Oct. 14
• Rep. Tony Wied (R-Wis.): 6, most recently Oct. 2
• Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.): 5, most recently Aug. 12
• Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee: 1, July 21
• Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.): 1, July 14
• Rep. Tracey Mann (R-Kan.): 1, Aug. 13
• Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas): 1, June 30

Khanna is the only Democrat on the list. He has led the push in Congress for a ban on members’ stock trading and is widely seen as a likely 2028 presidential contender. His paper reports cover trades in a family trust, not in accounts he directs. “I do not own or trade stocks and have led the fight to ban stock trading,” Khanna wrote, adding that his household’s only investments are in a trust his in-laws set up before his marriage, “managed independently by a third party trustee in full compliance with the Office of Government ethics (OGE) and House Rules.”

Some of the paper reports are long. McCaul’s Oct. 14 report lists about 90 trades by his spouse’s family partnership, and one of its pages was scanned upside down. Khanna’s Oct. 7 report runs 31 pages. The Inquisitor reported on both filings, and on Rogers’, earlier today and in a separate roundup.

Annual reports, too

Paper is more common, and more evenly split between the parties, for the annual financial disclosure reports that list members’ assets, income and debts. Of the reports covering calendar 2025 in the Clerk’s 2025 index, 29 current members filed on paper, 15 Democrats and 14 Republicans.

Among them are House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, whose 10-page report contains no machine-readable text, and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky (report). Democrats who filed on paper include Reps. Jerrold Nadler of New York (report), Doris Matsui of California (report), Brad Sherman of California (report) and Khanna (report). McCaul’s annual report, also on paper, was received Oct. 14.

The other paper filers of annual reports were Republicans Gus Bilirakis, Chuck Fleischmann, Paul Gosar, Michael Guest, Diana Harshbarger, Burgess Owens, Harold Rogers, Mike Rogers, Keith Self, Elise Stefanik and Jeff Van Drew, and Democrats Troy Carter, Joaquin Castro, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Angie Craig, Danny Davis, Vicente Gonzalez, Gwen Moore, Mike Quigley, Mike Thompson, Dina Titus and George Whitesides.

How the Inquisitor counted

The Clerk assigns electronic filings document numbers beginning with 2 (PTRs) or 1 (annual reports), and assigns scanned paper filings numbers beginning with 8 or 9. The Inquisitor counted PTRs and original annual reports in the Clerk’s 2026 and 2025 indexes, downloaded Oct. 26, matched the filers to the Clerk’s list of current members, and spot-checked filings to confirm that the 8- and 9-series documents are scanned images. One 9-series annual report, filed in 2025 by a candidate, was excluded. The Clerk’s index showed no new House trade reports after Oct. 22. Senate filings, which are posted on a separate system, are not included.

Comment

The Inquisitor asked the Clerk of the House’s Legislative Resource Center, Demand Progress, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the R Street Institute and the Cato Institute about paper filing. It is seeking comment from the ten members’ offices through their Washington office lines, and from the Committee on House Administration by phone. This story will be updated with any responses.